audioman58
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| Bricasti M3 vs. Holo Audio May vs. PS Audio DS The Bricasti m3 with current MDX board and with streamer card sound at its best not far off it’s big brother the M1 , and to make streaming much better the uptone audio Ether regen it truly removes all the noise residing in your digital just do ... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! Myself and several of my friends have been using the Hifidelity cable 1260 3D enhancer put in on Everything including tube pins to AC blades and cables it takes a solid 2-3 weeks to settle in but very noticeable .we tried removing completely ,one... | |
| List your breakthrough products that you’ve discovered on this audiophile Journey. The New Hifidelity cables nano 360 contact enhancer for $300 is a gift it takes a few weeks to fully settle in. The SVS 3000,SB, and micro subwoofers with great app are ground breaking in quality and value .in Digital the Bricasti M3 with streamer... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use Hello The Coda is a very smooth but dynamic amplifier I have 18 1st watts in pure class A then 150,8 ohms 300,4 ohms I use modded Elac Vela speakers 86 db , and tried on my brothers spatial audio open baffle X3 speakers 97 db efficient as well a... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use I use the Exceptional U.S made Coda CSIB integrated ampit has 3 power choices all doubling down into 2 ohms.the lowest power 150,300,600 has the highest amount of pure class A -18 first watts , these guys are very understated ,stereotimes best of ... | |
| Before I order the Magnepan 1.7s... I have owned Maggis from 1.6.1.7 not much difference, just Xover point ,and owned 3.6 also much more cohesive. They are made so dam cheap though you would think in 20 years they would give you at least a decent loudspeaker terminal , that cheap N... | |
| PS audio new 25K dac and the psychological effect of owning a company's best. Not in a million year , I owned their top dac and opened the unit up cut my finger on the cheap thin sheet metal and inside half empty what a joke ,I bought the night and day better built as well as sounding Bricasti M3 dac , with $1k streamer car... | |
| New to Integrated stereo tube amps Ayon has by far the best tube management out there it has a microprocessor that monitors each tube and regulates each tube for premium MA current , when a tube does fail the unit goes into stand by ,and a led lights up telling you which tube is at... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream For build quality ,made in MA. U.SA. Machined billet aluminum case Classic AD 1955 laser trimmed dual Multibitbit dacs ,separate modules for dsd conversion ,separate linear power supplies and Streamer card for $6500Bricasti M3 dac with analog pr... | |
| Power cord choice? Make your own get good Furutech Copper good connectors and buy Furutech nano fluid bulk wire it will compete with $1200cables for less then 1/2 that cost. | |
| Amanero audio drivers Exactly the driver was corrupted ,you could uninstall it but then reinstall would get hung up a tech had to fix several sub directoriesi got so mad I sold the dac ,a new audio gd R8 mk2 R2Rdac thst sounded very respectable and bought a Bricasti ... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality Agreed you are rarely getting master recordings but QObuz has hirez masters as well as Tidal just not that much maybe 10% or less , as I stated in a previous email , if the dac you have is doing it’s job correctly Bricasti for example is known f... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality I have over 40 years in Audio as well as owning a Audio store I have owned pretty much 90% of most designs out there .a cd was great in its day ,but today Waay outdated .a disc wobbles even a small amount ,is magnified and error correction needs t... | |
| Lack of Lamm customer service? Lamm is very arrogant and way over priced , I was shocked when I popped the cover on a $20 k preamp a few years back .A very gifted engineer but Way too frugal at your expense.since I have been into high end mods for over 20 years, he uses many a... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Being from McIntosh assuming the digital is good you could not be more wrong ,since theysold their company out went the Audiophiles and part of their integrity .some are in part made in China ,only their upper end is made in NY,and digital is by ... |